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Meanings of womanliness in English

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The quality of being feminine; qualities and behaviours deemed to be typical for women and girls.

The trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of an adult female.

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Examples for "womanlike"
Examples for "womanlike"
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But she insisted, womanlike; and he at last consented to a bite.
Darkness and Dawn
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And so, womanlike, she conveyed the Idea from her brain to his.
The Mountebank
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But, womanlike, she would not miss the chance to thrust at me.
The Master of Appleby / A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part w...
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Honor sat upright, and womanlike, took both Jean's hands in hers, saying-
Honor Edgeworth; Or, Ottawa's Present Tense
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Zora flew to the bassinette and glowed womanlike over the baby.
Septimus
Usage of womanliness in English
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This reverence for woman is the first and truest step towards womanliness.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
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She has been aroused to remember that womanliness is not chiefly decorative.
Creative Unity
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She is a Raby too, only softened down by her sweet womanliness.
Put Yourself in His Place
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He loved her for her sweetness, for her womanliness, for her strength.
Beyond the City
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Has all the sweetness, all the womanliness, gone out of your character?
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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She had brain, she had wit, and, above all, she had womanliness.
The Jacket (The Star-Rover)
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The physical womanliness of woman essentially consists in wifehood and maternity.
The Friendships of Women
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The gracious womanliness of her struck Vera afresh with its charm.
The Obstacle Race
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From this gracious figure was exhaled invisible radiations-theluxurious sense of refined womanliness.
An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada
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She exuded a faint and intoxicating perfume of womanliness, like a crushed herb
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases / A Practical Handbook Of Pertin...
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Juliet possessed to a degree that pervasive womanliness which vanquishes mankind.
The Voice of the People
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Her mood veered, and she whirled impulsively toward him, all womanliness and contrition.
The Henchman
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Any thing that takes away from modesty, refinement, gentleness, takes away from womanliness.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
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Her moral womanliness consists in modesty and self-denial, the preponderance of disinterestedness over egotism.
The Friendships of Women
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We are told that true manliness and true womanliness are one and the same.
Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out
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Mrs. Duncan, plump, motherly, lovable in the mature womanliness of forty, greeted him cordially.
The Cow Puncher
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